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Page 280
... virtue , he had ready for him , whom he wished to court on the morrow , new wit and virtue with another stamp . Of this kind of mean- ness he never seems to decline the practice , or lament the necessity : he considers the great as ...
... virtue , he had ready for him , whom he wished to court on the morrow , new wit and virtue with another stamp . Of this kind of mean- ness he never seems to decline the practice , or lament the necessity : he considers the great as ...
Page 336
... virtue oppressed and vice punished : where they do not both , or either , they are not to be defended . ' And if we should grant that the Greeks performed this better , perhaps it may admit of dispute , whether pity and terror are ...
... virtue oppressed and vice punished : where they do not both , or either , they are not to be defended . ' And if we should grant that the Greeks performed this better , perhaps it may admit of dispute , whether pity and terror are ...
Page 339
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it ...
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it ...
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